Re: Can synopsis (be made to) follow Python impo rts?

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:14:18AM -0800, Eric Hopper wrote:
> Callgraphs are a little trickier, but I bet it's still possible.
> Python's scoping rules are very simple and straightforward.  And while
> you can do some very weird things with executing things in odd scopes,
> the most common cases are easy to deal with.

What really breaks this is method calls; unless the object in question
was constructed a few lines before, you have no idea where a method
call is actually going... and method calls in Python are, obviously,
quite common.

-- Nathaniel

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